The Lab

The Lab

News from Emerging IT, lessons learned and advice for your information system.

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July 10, 2026cybersecurityBusiness cybersecurity: which protections are truly essential?EDR, firewall, MFA, backups, updates… Discover the essential protections to strengthen your company’s cybersecurity.Read the article →The Lab · July 10, 2026Antivirus, EDR, firewall, MFA, backups, email filtering… With so many cybersecurity solutions on offer, it is not always easy to know which protections are truly necessary.Yet an organisation’s cybersecurity does not rest on a single tool. It requires several complementary layers of protection to secure users, identities, workstations, the network and data.Why is antivirus alone no longer enough?For a long time…Business cybersecurity: which protections are truly essential?EDR, firewall, MFA, backups, updates… Discover the essential protections to strengthen your company’s cybersecurity.

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April 16, 2026artificial intelligenceorganizationWhat AI gave me… and what it took from meAI saves time, but it shifts mental load and creates a dependency whose cost is still underestimated. Lessons learned by a CEO who is also a developer.Read the article →The Lab · April 16, 2026There is something I read everywhere on LinkedIn about artificial intelligence, and that I find more and more incomplete.We are told that AI eliminates tasks with no added value. That it frees up time. That it finally lets us focus on what matters. That it increases productivity.Fundamentally, that is true.But it is only part of the story.The real issue is not only the productivity gain, but the hidden human and…What AI gave me… and what it took from meAI saves time, but it shifts mental load and creates a dependency whose cost is still underestimated. Lessons learned by a CEO who is also a developer.

Philippe, as a teacher in front of a blackboard covered with the benchmark prompts, teaches a class of robots labelled Claude Opus 4.5, Nemotron-3-nano, OpenAI GPT5.2 Pro and Mistral

January 15, 2026artificial intelligenceLLMOn-premise AI: does the ASUS GX10 live up to its promises?Benchmark of the ASUS GX10 AI supercomputer: 12 prompts, 10 local and commercial LLMs, performance and answer quality. POC or production?Read the article →The Lab · January 15, 2026ForewordAs promised in my last post, I'm back with a very long article presenting a series of tests run on the ASUS GX10 AI supercomputer.The goal, first and foremost, is to check the real capabilities of the hardware and to identify the contexts in which it can be genuinely useful.Should it be confined to simple POCs, or can it be considered for client production use? That is precisely the question we will try to…On-premise AI: does the ASUS GX10 live up to its promises?Benchmark of the ASUS GX10 AI supercomputer: 12 prompts, 10 local and commercial LLMs, performance and answer quality. POC or production?