Cursor launched Origin, a full Git hosting platform meant to compete directly with GitHub rather than just plug into it. TechCrunch frames it as Cursor cashing in on GitHub fatigue among developers, betting that an editor-maker can also run the repo.

Modular open-sourced Mojo, the Python-flavored systems language built for GPU and CPU performance, a move Simon Willison flagged as a real shift for a project that's spent years closed. Elsewhere, someone had Claude write a working macOS driver for an HP printer that only ever shipped Windows support, a small reminder that these models are now doing driver-level grunt work nobody wanted to do by hand.

The odder finds: researchers say Israel stood up a fake think tank apparently designed to feed AI chatbots a preferred narrative. A Hacker News favorite traced how the UK's rail network can double as a giant flatbed scanner. And a macOS build now runs a 3D fly on your desktop animated straight from the real FlyWire connectome, a full insect brain doing nothing more than sitting on your dock.