A weakness in the Cursor code editor exposes developers to the risk of automatically executing tasks in a malicious repository as soon as it’s opened. Threat actors can exploit the flaw to drop ...

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...

Cursor, the developer of a widely used artificial intelligence code editor, has closed a $2.3 billion later-stage investment at a $29.3 billion valuation. Accel and Coatue led the Series D round. They ...

What if your coding tool could do more than just assist—what if it could truly transform the way you develop software? The rise of AI-powered code editors has sparked a quiet revolution in programming ...

Since the AI coding assistant space kicked off with GitHub Copilot, which came early to Visual Studio Code, other alternatives have sprung up, with Cursor among the most popular. Thanks to abilities ...

A vulnerability that researchers call CurXecute is present in almost all versions of the AI-powered code editor Cursor, and can be exploited to execute remote code with developer privileges. The ...

I’ve been comparing both for the past few weeks. Here’s what I learned. Both editors leverage advanced models like GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and others, resulting in similar raw code output. The real ...

For the longest time, I didn’t understand why Cursor had to be a dedicated app built on VS Code when it could have just been an extension. It didn’t seem to add much beyond an AI copilot layer on top ...

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a common workflow for programmers who ...