The Hodler and Her Bootloader. The SKELM Chronicles: Reprehensible Deeds of a Detestable Scoundrel, #5

Open mouths, empty heads, big bytes. Cunégonde doesn't hack systems. She haunts them. From a death-trapped microwave to the hollowed-out data centers of Neo Babylon, she types code into things that shouldn't accept it - and they obey. They always obey. Darby Skelm just needed to run one more package through the neon-bled streets. Instead, he's neck-deep in a reallocation scheme that smells like burning printer plastic and betrayal.
Bounty hunters on his heels. SKELM CORPS in his head. And a woman who holds onto broken tech like other people hold grudges. She calls it bootloading. He calls it a death wish. When the void starts collapsing and the data centers freeze solid, only one of them gets to decide what reboots - and what stays dead. Some things aren't meant to come back online.