After Chester Bennington’s death in 2017, Linkin Park went on an indefinite hiatus. In 2024, the band returned with new music and a new co-vocalist, Emily Armstrong.

But what happened behind closed doors during the years in between? In their new documentary film Unshatter, Linkin Park share the process of deciding to make music together again.

BBC News’ Mel Ramsay speaks with band member and Unshatter director Joe Hahn about navigating grief as well as dealing with criticism – and why the band felt ready to return.

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Gamescom, the biggest gaming convention in the world, is full of big surprises.

Tech Now’s Laura Cress has the highlights from this year’s event.

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Could Valve’s new Steam Frame be more affordable?

Well according to one of it’s developers Jeremy Selan, that answer is yes.

Speaking to the BBC’s Tom Gerken, Selan said the global RAM and storage market “has impacted us the same way they have impacted everybody.”

But at £1,000, is this another VR headset that will be just too expensive?

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Six million more people in England are to live under Tier 4 coronavirus restrictions after the UK government said case numbers …

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AI “kill switches” may need to be mandatory for companies developing the technology, according to a co-founder of Anthropic, one of the world’s largest AI firms.

Jack Clark told the BBC that a way of shutting off AI software completely if it gets too dangerous was something society “might want to eventually pass rules around”. Clark said “most labs have different ways of being able to pull the plug”, including Anthropic, but said lawmakers may need to enforce that.

AI’s rapid developement and fears over the risks it poses to humanity have been thrust into the spotlight by a series of warnings from executives and staff at AI firms. Some have said publicly there is a chance the technology could, if unchecked, kill all humans.

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has called for the pace of AI development to slow and be more closely monitored. He said such action should be done “without sacrificing commercial advantage”.

Jack Clark told the BBC that specifics around “kill switch” requirements and verification should be part of “the larger policy conversation” taking place around AI: “Should you mandate for companies to definitely have a kill switch? Is that kill switch verifiable by a third party?” he asked. “ I think that’s the kind of thing society is going to want to know and might want to eventually pass rules around.”

Anthropic, which was formed in 2021 by a group of former employees of its rival OpenAI, is currently at the centre of a debate around AI safety. Last week, a post from an artificial intelligence researcher who quit Anthropic over concerns AI could wipe out humanity went viral.

Anthropic scientist Evan Hubinger said he personally thought the possibility of human extinction from AI was greater than 10% within the next decade. Computer scientist and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI”, told the BBC he believed that a 10% chance of AI killing all humans was not unreasonable.

However, some in the AI industry have also suggested the fears around it destroying humanity are overstated or may be designed to generate hype.

Fiona Bruce presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Faisal Islam and Zoe Kleinman.

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