Who’s Hacking Your Spotify?

ImageA proposed playlist for hackers. Connor Ball, the 23-year-old bassist of the British pop band the Vamps, was in the shower when he realized something was up. The song he was listening to on Spotify, by the American singer Lauv, had suddenly stopped. “That’s a shame,” Mr. Ball remembered thinking. (He couldn’t start it again;…

After Karl, Chanel Keeps Close to Home

PARIS — The festive holiday lights of Paris sparkled from store fronts and Christmas garlands, arched over roads and the Eiffel Tower, twinkled over the River Seine and through an inky black sky. It was the eve of an indefinite national strike in France. The public walkout was expected to be the country’s biggest demonstration…