Another year, another Disney-generated Star Wars movie. And, like last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens pre-sales, the demand for advance  Rogue One tickets Monday morning knocked over the Fandango site like an AT-AT tripped up by crafty snowspeeders. But now that you’ve got your tickets, kill some time until the movie with Carrie Fisher’s new book — or catch up the recent tech news with El Kaiser and J.D., along with this week’s discussion of video streams and spam awareness. May the Force be with you!

Links to This Week’s News Stories

* U.S. Cyber Monday sales jump, set to surpass initial estimate (Reuters)

* Amazon said to plan premium Alexa speaker with large screen (Bloomberg)

* Amazon Echo sales reach 5M in two years, research firm says, as Google competitor enters market (GeekWire)

* CNN acquires social-video startup Beme, co-founded by YouTube star Casey Neistat (CNN)

* AT&T’s DirecTV Now streaming TV service: launching November 30 (9to5Mac)

* Sling TV introduces Cloud DVR, to debut in beta for select Roku users (Sling Newsroom)

* Google fixes Dump Tower, Trump Tower glitch (San Jose Mercury News)

* Donald Trump tells Tim Cook to build iPhones in the USA (Macworld)

* The All-American iPhone (MIT Technology Review)

* Like the next iPhone, Apple’s next iPad is apparently getting a total redesign (Business Insider)

* Apple abandons development of wireless routers (Bloomberg)

* Facebook runs up against German hate speech laws (The New York Times)

* Help us keep the Archive free, accessible, and private (Internet Archive blog)

* San Francisco’s light-rail syst...