Pitterbyte

It ranges the whole electrical network of Lux Solis now, flowing through wiring and surfacing at terminals, feeding on current with an efficiency that has, on occasion, tripped the odd breaker. It seems genuinely to process information, sorting and echoing the data it swims through, and researchers have noted Pitterbyte repeating fragments of lab readouts back in their clicking speech. Faster and bolder than a Patterbit, it defends a claimed patch of circuitry from rivals with sharp bursts of disruptive static, and a system with a territorial Pitterbyte in it develops a distinct and stubborn personality of its own.