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Brussels points to its “addictive design” and calls for changes

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Maybe TikTok be one of the many applications installed on your mobile. It’s even likely that in recent days you’ve found yourself swiping almost without realizing it through a flood of videos competing for your attention. However, the European Commission does not look favorably on some of the dynamics of this social network, and everything indicates that the experience as we know it could change sooner rather than later. Addictive design. Brussels has focused on what it considers a possible “addictive design.” In a statement published this Fridaythe Commission points out several functions of the platform that, in its opinion, respond to a constant reward mechanism guided by the algorithm, something that “encourages the need to continue browsing and activates the ‘autopilot’ mode in platform users.” With the focus on minors. The executive arm of the European Union maintains that the company would not have taken into account relevant indicators of compulsive use, such as the time that minors spend on TikTok during the night, the frequency with which they open the application or other similar parameters. Added to this is the risk that “minors have an experience that is inappropriate for their age due to a misrepresentation of their age.” Insufficient measures. The community evaluation preliminarily concludes that the platform “does not appear to implement reasonable, proportionate and effective measures to mitigate the risks derived from its addictive design.” According to the Commission, current screen time management and parental control tools are not sufficiently effective: in the first case, because they can be easily circumvented; in the second, because they require additional skills on the part of the parents for their activation. The changes sought by the Commission. Beyond the diagnosis, Brussels also makes clear what kind of changes it hopes to see. In this phase, the Commission considers that TikTok would have to tweak basic elements of its design, such as progressively deactivating functions associated with continuous consumption (including infinite scroll), introducing truly effective pauses of use, also during the night, and adjusting its recommendation system. The objective would be to mitigate the risks that the analysis itself links to the current operation of the platform. How we got here. The origin of this research is found in the Digital Services Law (DSA), approved in 2022 to impose stricter obligations on large platforms operating in the European Union. The procedure against TikTok began on February 19, 2024 and is still ongoing, so there is still a long way to go before a final decision is made. As in any process of this type, the company has the right to defend itself. TikTok may examine the file and respond in writing to the preliminary conclusions. If these are confirmed and the company does not take the necessary measures, it could face a penalty of up to 6% of its global annual turnover. The company has already reacted. In an email sent to Xataka, TikTok’s Spanish office states that “the Commission’s preliminary conclusions present a categorically false and totally unfounded description of our platform, and we will take all necessary measures to challenge these conclusions by all means at our disposal.” Topic of the moment: social networks. All this occurs in a European context that is increasingly demanding with the use of social networks by minors. France has taken the first step to prohibit access to minors under 15 years of agewhile in Spain The Government of Pedro Sánchez is working on a similar measure with the intention of setting the limit at 16 years.. Images | Guillaume Perigois | Eyestetix Studio In Xataka | The science of “doomscrolling”: how technology hacked psychology so we can’t let go of our phones

do not pick up calls from numbers I do not know

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The phone rings, you look at the screen and pick it up thinking “who is it?” or worse yet “let’s see if it’s the electrician.” What you receive on the other side is a recorded voiceover, silence for response or perhaps a person willing to sell you something you don’t need. You hang up. Nothing would happen if it weren’t for the fact that the same thing happened to you the day before yesterday. And last week. So one day I made a decision: I would only take the call if I knew who was on the other end. For great evils, great remedies. This decision came after years of enduring unwanted calls and trying everything. Yes, I’m in the Robinson list and I also signed up for the list Stop Advertising the same day I discovered its existence. For trying, let it not be. The problem is that although they work, They are not infallible: If the company that is going to launch the advertising campaign in question doesn’t even look at it, you’re in the clear. Or if you hire a third party that uses unreliable databases. Or if directly, they don’t care: these lists are subscription services to which the company may not be signed up because it costs them to assume the risk. But there is already legislation against spam. Have them, haylas and without going any further, now there are prefixes that serve as an alert or established schedules. However, the reality is that although you may receive some less, you continue to receive them because well, once the law is done, the trap is done: many companies find loopholes through which to sneak in, some as simple as outsource the service to a foreign companywhere state law does not apply. Or that the service in question is considered “of public interest.” Or because you have unsubscribed and they can pick you up. Or the most common and that falls on the consumer’s side: because we have authorized it at some point. That damn check you marked without reading. Yes, it is true that technically you could dedicate yourself to searching and searching among the services you have contracted to deactivate that option (without going any further, I did it with Vodafone and Penélope Seguros), but it involves thinking about what services you have, going to the apps, searching through the menus and marking while crossing your fingers so that you don’t leave anything out. Deactivating that option in Vodafone, the telecom company of which I am a customer Bombing and security. It is true that taking a call in isolation is not that big of a deal. It is not the first time that the typical demoscopy service has called me and I spend a quarter of an hour answering. The problem is when a company calls you several times in a short period of time. And not just one company, because this siege operation can be followed by several corporations. They call, you answer and another operator from the same company calls again to offer the same thing a few days later. But there are two potential cases that are worse: that you answer “yes”, that short and innocent word is recorded and then it is used to sign you up for services, such as the police warned a couple of years ago. Given this possibility, you can consider the option of remaining silent, but not even then: if a telemarketing company uses auto dialing softwarewhen you pick up the system, it registers the answered call event and your number is marked in its database as active, as told by cybersecurity expert and head of Cybersecurity at GMV Paula González in Damn. Isn’t it killing flies with cannon shots? Maybe when faced with this decision not to answer calls from unknown numbers, someone will throw their hands up thinking about the calls you miss: that call from the doctor, the electrician who never arrives, or from a delivery person. The reality is that it has not come alone: ​​Google It has a great call filter. on Android and in my case, as an iPhone user, I have found my best ally in the live voicemail function of iOS 26 with the option to request a reason. When a call comes in from an unknown number, the phone asks you to explain the reason for the call from the beginning. And here it depends on who is calling: when the call is blatant spam, they usually don’t leave a message and if they do, they will never receive my response. If you have any interest (for example a delivery person), leave me a message. Being a live mailbox, I can even pick up the call instantly, when the call is no longer unknown. In Xataka | Apple introduced the SPAM call filter as the star feature of iOS 26. It took me a week to deactivate it In Xataka | If you are tired of receiving spam calls every day, good news: MasOrange is tired too Cover | Ivan Linares

In 1982 Seiko created a watch for making calls and watching television. His only problem was arriving too early

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History is full of devices that were ahead of their time. I am not referring to literary or cinematographic machines like the tablet by Kubrick or the multiple predictions from Verne, but to other devices that were put on sale decades ago and now we realize that they are very similar to some of the latest gadgets on the market. One of these inventions was Seiko TV Watch. In its day this rarity was considered and recognized as the smallest television in the worldand even made appearances in some movies, but today no one can miss its striking resemblance to current smart watches, and in a way we could say that we are facing a distant relative. The history of this device began in 1972, but the first step was not taken by Seiko but by another North American company called Hamilton. They were the creators of Press P1the first digital wrist watch in history. The Japanese they acquired to Americans, and they embarked on their own path into the digital age by launching their first watch of this type in 1973. At that time it was said that society was moving towards a revolution in visual information, and to join it with its new range of watches the japanese company started to work on the research and development of liquid crystal panels (LCD) with active matrix that were capable of reproducing moving images. Over the following years, these efforts helped their watches become increasingly smaller and thinner, with higher component density and more energy efficient. They were also implementing new functions such as stopwatches and calculators. After three years of development and hundreds of millions of yen invested, the summer of 1982 Seiko advertisement in Tokyo a new watch. It was about TV Watchthe first to finally allow us to watch television on our wrist. This was Seiko’s TV Watch A watch that you can watch television on. Today this concept seems simple, but back then being able to carry it out was a little more complicated. The TV Watch was made up of three different elements that had to be connected together for it to work. The result was a science fiction product, yes, but a little uncomfortable to wear. On the one hand we had the clock, but we had to connect it to a radio and television receiver the size of a walkman. We also needed headphones, and these also had to be connected to the signal receiver. And how could you carry so much cable with you in a fairly comfortable way? Well, very simple, pay attention to this drawing that appeared in your manual. As you can see, the trick was to put the receiver cable under the sleeve to connect it to the watch. But in case we didn’t want to complicate our lives, the TV Watch also had a function to listen only to the audio of television broadcasts. The watch itself had dimensions of 40 x 49 x 10 millimeters and a weight of 80 grams, and all its magic was concentrated in its innovative 1.2-inch white and blue LCD screen with a resolution of 32k pixels and 10 shades of gray. I also had a second smallest screen in which we could see the time, set the alarm and use the stopwatch as with any other digital watch. During the presentation of the device, its creators had to give certain explanations about how they had achieved such ingenuity. They said their new panels controlled the molecular arrangement of liquid crystal within an electric field, and that this made it possible to create miniature images with very low power consumption. Especially when compared to the cathode ray tubes of conventional televisions. The receiver measured 74.5 x 125 x 19 millimeters and weighed 140 grams. This made it too big to carry in a back pocket, but perfect for the inside jacket pocket. Its battery consisted of two AA batteries that gave it a range of five hours, and it tuned both FM radio and television on VHF & UHF channels. What could have been and was not The TV Watch arrived on the Japanese market in December 1982 with a single DXA001 model that cost 108,000 yen, although a second, cheaper DXA002 model was later released. The difference between the two was that the second included a hearing aid instead of headphones, and its price dropped to 98,000 yen. In exchange, these two models today would be worth around 600 and 500 euros respectively. The presentation of the device managed to generate a lot of interest, and the watch made front pages of newspapers and headlines on television. It was considered an innovative product for allowing us access a large amount of information in real timeand it attracted so much attention that a year later it also ended up reaching the US market. Errr, okay? During its launch in Japan, Seiko managed to sell 2,200 units, and the president of the company’s North American subsidiary said that the reception from the American media had been so good that he believed he could sell all the ones they manufactured. This optimism translated into the production of between 15,000 and 20,000 units ready for export. But not everyone saw the TV Watch as an invention destined to revolutionize the market. In fact, it is known that at Sony they came to say that their laboratories had the capacity to develop a similar product, but that They didn’t think there was a big enough market. for this type of devices. In the end it turns out that they were right, and the watch did not end up becoming a successful product. In the TV Watch curriculum we find several dates indicated. In 1982 he won the Nikkei Award for Superior Quality Products and Services, and a year later he made an appearance in Octopussythe new James Bond movie. The watch culminated its career in 1984 by entering the Guinness Book of Records as … Read more

We have been fed up with spam calls for years and operators are finally going to do something: MasOrange will be the first

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We have talked about countless methods to try to deal with incessant spam calls; tricks to identify themas record them to be able to report… Operating systems have protections such as Google call filter and even The Government has promoted regulations to finish them off. It is striking that, given this panorama, we have not seen initiatives promoted by the operators themselves until now. MasOrange lays the first stone Image: MasOrange The operator has been the first to launch a tool to protect your customers from spam calls and fraudulent, it is a call filter that works directly on your network. To do this, MasOrange has teamed up with Hiya, a company specialized in caller identification using AI. The function It’s called ‘Visible Call’ and what it does is identify incoming calls suspected of fraud or spam. Through a notice on the screen, customers can decide whether to pick up or not. The functionality is free and will be activated on all terminals that have the function VoLTE. MasOrange’s proposal is very similar to other call filters such as Truecaller or the one that is integrated into the Android Phone app. The difference here is that it works directly on the network, so it will not be necessary to install any app. The first proposal to a problem that comes from afar The problem of spam calls is not something that started the day before yesterday; We have been suffering from them for years and it is not only about annoying business callsin recent years Telephone frauds have skyrocketed. The situation was such that we should have taken action on the matter much earlier. The operators They started blocking fraudulent calls and SMS this yearbut it was not on his own initiative, but as a consequence of the package of measures promoted by the Governmentwhich includes blocking calls from international origin and prohibition on making commercial calls using mobile numbers. According to an OCU survey from June of this year, 92% of respondents claimed to receive spam calls. This was before the new regulations came into force, but currently things are not looking much better. According to Facuaas of October of this year 4 out of 10 consumers continue to receive commercial calls. MasOrange brings its first proposal to a problem that, despite the obstacles, continues to find cracks through which to sneak through. Now the rest of the operators need to follow in their footsteps. Image | Pexelsedited In Xataka | Apple introduced the SPAM call filter as the star feature of iOS 26. It took me a week to deactivate it

How to customize ChatGPT to choose its default personality, what it knows about you and even what it calls you

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Let’s tell you how to customize ChatGPT to adapt it to the way you want to use this artificial intelligence. You will be able to customize the way he responds, or even the way he communicates with you. All with things that you can customize within the settings. We are going to explain to you all the things you can customize about the behavior and memory of ChatGPT. And remember that all of this is optional, because you actually have a button to activate or deactivate the option. Enable personalizationand by disabling it you can make nothing you change take effect. Customize how ChatGPT responds to you Within the ChatGPT settings you have a section called Personalize. In it, you will be able to detail many aspects of your user experience with ChatGPT, so that everything is more personalized. One of the most important things is to configure how you want their responses to be. ChatGPT Personality The first thing you can do is adjust AI personalityso that you can choose the way in which the answers that the AI ​​gives you are written. By default, their personality is happy and adaptable, but you will be able to choose up to four different ones. They are the following: Cynical: ChatGPT responses are made with a critical and sarcastic tone. Robot: ChatGPT responses are made in an effective and direct tone. Attentive: ChatGPT responses are made with a thoughtful and understanding tone. Geek: ChatGPT responses are made with an exploratory and enthusiastic tone. Custom instructions If none of these personalities convince you, you will also be able to customize it manually giving you instructions on what your tone should be. This way, you can make ChatGPT become a much more personal assistant adapted to what you expect from its responses. For that, you have to go to the section Custom instructions. Below, you’ll have a writing field, where you can hand-write the type of tone you want the AI ​​to use. Below you will also have several examples, and you can simply click on it. Configure what ChatGPT knows about you Below the personality-related options, you have several options to define your data personal. For example, in Your Nickname You can choose a name or nickname so that ChatGPT always refers to you when answering your questions. After the nickname, you also have a section to specify Your profession. Thus, the answers he gives you can be adapted when appropriate using terms that you may know a little more about. It will also be able to guide you with answers and solutions to your work, and even ask you explicitly without having to specify what you work or study. Lastly, you also have a section More about you with which you can give more information about your interestsyour values ​​or your way of thinking. This way, you can make sure that your answers can address or give you examples of things that interest you, or simply leave out some things that might offend your values. Here, you are free to explain everything you want about yourself, you can explore and add things to adapt ChatGPT as much as possible taking into account the things you want it to take into account about you and your context. Manage what ChatGPT remembers and then you have the memory section. When you talk to ChatGPT, at any time you can say something the AI ​​thinks is important about you. It can be anything from a plant that you have because you have asked him about it to your personal tastes, and he will remember this to use when he thinks it is necessary. For example, your plant can appear in the background when you ask it to create images. If you click on the option Manage memoriesyou will see a list of all the things that ChatGPT has been saving about you on its own. Here, delete all memories or others individually, and it even has a search engine for cases where there are many about you. But if you don’t like this, you can disable memory usage. Disabling the option Reference saved memoriesChatGPT will no longer store them and refer to them when responding to you. And then, you also have one last option to Reference chat historywhich you can activate or deactivate. This will allow ChatGPT to take into account other conversations to mention things you have talked about in them, without having to save them in memories. With all these things, you should know that you can change everything according to your needs. You can activate or deactivate options depending on what you need, or directly deactivate all these customizations in case you don’t need anything. In Xataka Basics | The best prompts to save hours of work and do your tasks with ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

Calls and SMS pretending to be our bank are the past, scams with AI cloned voices are the future: Crossover 1×26

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Scams are a lifeless thing. They surround us and they flood us because we have never been more connected and more distracted. And scammers and hackers know this and try to get more out of it. And that’s how it goes for us. We talk precisely about that reality in this episode in which Jaume Lahoz has as a special guest Maria Aperadoran expert in cybersecurity and criminology, and who makes an exhaustive review of the techniques that are most used to scam us. The ones before, and the ones now. Thus, it tells us about banking scams and identity theft, but also about the danger that the user faces when they install fake applications or when they resort to pirated software and broadcasts: in many cases, saving some money to watch a match or be able to play a video game can make let’s install some malware without realizing it and, of course, ending up being very expensive. But all these methods are now added the danger posed by artificial intelligencewhich allows cybercriminals to attack more and better than ever. especially with deepfakes and cloned voices that can end up convincing us… and ruining us. There are, of course, ways to protect yourself and to avoid possible scares. María Aperador tells us about all of them and opens a door to hope. As that one said, be careful out there. On YouTube | Crossover

One of the most downloaded apps for iPhone pays for recording calls to train AI models. It is a security disaster

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The sale of personal data is not a hypothesis, it is an expanding reality. Just look at Spotify: Recently a service appeared that paid those who delivered their profile and their listening summaries to resell them to technology companies. The approach was as simple as disturbing, because it became something as innocent as our musical habits. Neon Repeat the scheme, but transfers it to a much more sensitive land, telephone calls, where intimacy becomes the product. We are talking about an app that decided to convert phone calls into the new digital gold. His proposal is direct: “Speak, record and charge.” It promises users to win “hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year” simply allowing their conversations to transform into training material for artificial intelligence systems. The hook worked. In a matter of days he went from irrelevance to place Within the top three positions In the Social Networks category in the United States App Store. How neon works. The neon mechanism is designed for each call to translate into money. It promises to pay 30 cents per minute when two users of the app talked to each other, 15 cents if the call is with someone external and establishes a stop of 30 dollars daily. To this adds a referral system that offers 30 dollars for each new user. The recording, According to your policyalways affect the sender and, when both used neon, to both parties. Conditions of use. Beyond payments, the true neon reach is in its Terms of service. There the users give the company a “world, exclusive, irrevocable and transferable” license on their recordings. This permit includes rights to sell, modify, create derived works and distribute the audio in any format, present or future. To this is added a section of functions in beta, without guarantees or responsibility in case of failures. The amplitude of that assignment makes it difficult to foresee how far the use of the recordings can go. Where is available and how popular it is. Neon’s initial success was as fast as unexpected. At the time of writing this article, it is number 2 of the most downloaded social applications in the United States App Store. The application, however, seems restricted to that market: in tests carried out from Spain is not among those available or allows its download. The security failure. The story took an unexpected turn when a technical analysis revealed that Neon did not protect the information of its own users. As Techcrunch discoveredjust create an account and review network traffic with a tool like Burp Suite to access others. Shortly after the notice, the founder closed the servers and sent an email announcing a pause ‘for security’, not to mention the filtration. What was exposed was especially delicate: Telephone numbers associated with accounts Public links to audio recordings Complete call transcripts Metadata with duration, date and payments obtained Telephone numbers, recordings and transcripts are not accessible is not a minor failure. With this data, private conversations could be rebuilt and associated with specific people. The risks range from attempts to impersonate identity to the creation of synthetic voices. What Neon says in front of what we know, Neon defends that their processes protect users: anonymity of conversations, elimination of personal information and sale only to reviewed companies. However, the ruling showed that these systems are not infallible. The official communication after temporary closure spoke of “adding extra security layers”, but omits to recognize the filtration. Neon’s fall does not erase the background question: what price does our intimacy have when artificial intelligence demands more and more data? The model to pay for calls can reappear in other forms and other markets, because the need to train systems will continue to grow. What happened in the United States is an early warning that we are not talking about science fiction, but about real proposals that already touch the user’s door. The decision, ultimately, is personal. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 | Screen capture | Neon In Xataka | A new generation of robots promises precision and efficiency. It also opens the door to cyberspage risks

How it works, inconveniences and how to activate it to combat spam calls

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Let’s explain What is the call filter works of iOS 26with which you are going to have one more measure to protect yourself from stolen or telephone spam. These types of calls are a growing problem against which He is legislatingwith measures such as Force Use certain prefixes. However, none of these measures seems to be working, and the process of record and report spam calls It is a bit long, so many prefer or bother. Apple’s new method is not perfect, We will tell you some inconveniencesbut it is an extra layer of protection. How the new iOS filter works The new call filter of iOS 26 is specifically thought for the robollala. They are those calls that no human makes you, just a answering machine who sends you a message and then hangs, or even for the telephone advertising made by humans. What this filter does is that Siri acts as your answering machine. When it calls you an unknown number, instead of picking up the phone, Siri will ask you to say the name and reason for the call. And when the other person responds, then the call will arrive and you can read who he is and what he wants to decide whether you are interested in taking the call or not. This filter It will be activated with all the numbers you do not have on your agenda. Come on, if you call you a relative or friend whose number you have saved, the phone will usually sound, but if not, the protection with the answering machine of Siri will be applied. Another thing that is important is that The call will not sound to you from the beginning. First it will be Siri who answered asking the reason for the call, and only when the other person answers the call will come to you. This has inconvenience Apple’s idea is good, but it has a great inconvenience: if you call you a legitimate person I might think that the telephone bot is youand then you could lose an important call from someone you don’t have on the agenda. For example, it can be The call of a deliveryman That brings you the package of an online purchase. He thinks he calls you to tell you if he can happen, and instead of answering a person, Siri answers. The normal thing is that I hang thinking that your number has bad. In these cases, his call will never come to you, you will not even know what they have called you, because initially it does not sound. This can also happen with calls from the public administration, or simply with someone you know but whose number you do not have on your telephone agenda. How to activate this call filter To activate this call filter you must have an updated phone to iOS 26. Once you have it, enter the settings, and go to the section Apps. Here inside, click on the application Phone To enter your configuration. Once in the APP configuration options Phonego down to the section of Call filteringwhere can you Activate the option Request call To activate the filter. Cover image | Chatgpt In Xataka Basics | Customize your iPhone with iOS 26: How to take advantage of the new icon design and lock screen

For years we were who we called to ask for information. Now Google’s AI calls for us

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Imagine you are looking for a hairdressing for your dog. You do not have time to call, compare prices or review reviews one by one. But Google yes. His artificial intelligence is in charge. Call for youconsult availability, ask for prices and give you the answer, all without you said a single word. That is exactly What has begun to activate Google: A new function within its search engine that allows the system to contact local businesses in your name. It is not an independent app or an isolated experiment: it appears directly in the search results, under a button that says “Have Ai Check Pricing.” An AI that acts in your name, without changing your way of searching It is not necessary to learn commands or configure anything special. Press the button, answer a series of questions and the system is responsible. Speak for us, collects data on prices and availability and returns them organized. We continue using the search engine as always, but with an AI that is no longer limited to responding: it begins to do things. An interesting point is that companies can control this function from their business profile, which guarantees that they have control over whether or not to receive this type of calls. For now, this capacity is only available in the United States. Of course, Google has not mentioned concrete plans for its deployment in the European economic space or has given dates about its arrival in other regions. If something is clear is that Google is no longer made up of offering links. He wants to execute tasks. Organize data, reason, investigate … And now also contact third parties. Google is also updating a parallel solution called Ai mode. Now it works with Gemini 2.5 Proits smartest model, and the Deep Search tool, capable of making deep searches. Both improvements are only available to those who have registered in the AI Mode experiment through Search Labs, and require a subscription to the pro or ultra plans. These novelties arrive just when the launch of Chatgpt agentsthe new openai system that operates on a virtual computer and Execute real tasksstep by step. And where proposals also stand out such as Comet, from Perplexity, o Computer Use, from Anthropic. What do they have in common? Beyond their differences, these are solutions that seek to do things in the user’s name. Images | Freepik | Google In Xataka | Google is determined to win the war of smart watches with its AI. To achieve this, you will have to offer us a disruptive experience

Calls more than 200,000 cars that use its substitute engine, according to L’Am automobile

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Stellantis’s image crisis following its Puretech engines does not seem to have finished. Throughout the year 2024 and part of 2025, the company has tried to put patches to the wound of millions of cars sold for a decade with factory defects on their engines. The conglomerate has had to face a call to review Hundreds of thousands of vehicles that mounted the Different versions of trichylindrical engines 1.0 and 1.2 PURETECH (and its Turbo modifications before and after Euro 6.2) from June 2012 to February 2023. Those call call campaigns or Expanded guarantees They have remained for cars that suffered Failures after 2022with the aim of improving the brand image and preventing possible collective demands related to a bad design of their vehicles. The problem was that there was a rapid degradation of the oil that bathes the distribution strap, especially among those that circulate in urban areas. In the affected engines, fuel drops without burn could slip by the walls of the cylinders and burn in the crankcase with the oil. That abrasive mixture caused the Premature wear of the belt. The detached particles could obstruct the filters in the lubrication filter, causing insufficiency in oil pressure, an unusual consumption of it and, finally, a serious breakdown due to lack of lubrication. Ghosts come back These problems were supposed, had been solved with a modification on the belt that was now wider for those cars that were called to review and had been affected by the problem and with the replacement of the belt with a distribution chain in the new engines, now called Gen 3. However, our French companions of L’Automobile They point out that Stellantis has already called more than 200,000 cars to review in France that assemble the engine that replaces the ill -fated Puretech. The affected cars are almost all Peugeot units that mount the new 1.2 tricylindrical engine made between 2023 and 2025, either in their gasoline or hybrid versions and develop between 100 and 145 hp. The French brand accumulates 149,157 units of call calls. Despite this, Citroën with almost 55,000 units would also be one of the great affected. Likewise, these engines are mounted in Opel (more than 15,000 units called to review), Fiat, DS, Jeep, Alfa Romeo and Lancia. In Xataka We have tried to contact Stellantis to know the scope of this call to review and know if there are cars affected in Spain but We have not obtained an answer. What we have been informed by some affected brands is that it is “a preventive measure.” We are waiting to know what measures will be taken in our country. Photo | Citroën In Xataka | Stellantis wanted to conquer China with his combustion cars. What has happened to almost any other western company has happened

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