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  The recently opened InterContinental Lusaka, Zambia is poised to quickly re-establish itself as the destination hotel in the Zambian capital. Here’s how… The opening of InterContinental Lusaka marks the completion of the final phase of a project where Studio Moren designed the refurbishment of the existing hotel – an important landmark in Lusaka’s Government District – to create two separate and distinct hotels under the same roof: a new 162-key Holiday Inn, which opened in 2020 and the new 106-key luxury InterContinental. The project is the result of an extensive collaboration between architects (Studio Moren and Prism Architects), lighting designers (Design Omni), contractors (WBHO), project managers (Mace), quality surveyors (Equate), MEP (CKR), joiners (RAM and Design UP) and procurement (IPS Global Procurement). Studio Moren’s design for the hotel included an extensive meeting and conference facilities, including a ballroom, a large pre-function area, a business centre, a ba...

  Privacy, Device Security, Breach Dating app spills 340GB of steamy data and 260,000 user profiles  Dating app spills 340GB of steamy data and 260,000 user profiles Over 260,000 dating app account records and 340 gigabytes of images and private chat logs were left open to the public on an Amazon Web Services S3 storage bucket. Impacted was the dating service 419 Dating - Chat & Flirt, developed by Siling App based in Hong Kong.   Exposed data included names, email addresses, geolocation data for mostly United States and Canadian customers. Also exposed was private user messages and chat logs, audio files and profile images and pictures shared privately between users. In all, security researchers said the 340 gigabytes of data included 2,357,896 files and 600 compressed server logs. A review of just one of the 600 server logs revealed over 260,000 user account email addresses tied to Gmail, Yahoo Mail and iCloud Mail accounts. Additional email addresses were also...