diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a3bc1b4..9fbeed2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ rand = "0.8"        # weight init, dropout masks, shuffling
 rand_distr = "0.4"  # normal distribution
 rayon = "1.8"       # data parallelism on the CPU paths
 libm = "0.2"        # erff, for exact GELU
-ureq = "2.9"        # dataset download
+ureq = "3.4"        # dataset download
 flate2 = "1.0"      # dataset decompression
 
 [build-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/data/mnist.rs b/src/data/mnist.rs
index 25c896b..b2129e0 100644
--- a/src/data/mnist.rs
+++ b/src/data/mnist.rs
@@ -135,7 +135,10 @@ fn download_missing(cache: &Path, files: &[&str]) -> Result<()> {
             .map_err(|e| Error::Dataset(format!("could not fetch {url}: {e}")))?;
 
         let mut compressed = Vec::new();
-        response.into_reader().read_to_end(&mut compressed)?;
+        response
+            .into_body()
+            .into_reader()
+            .read_to_end(&mut compressed)?;
         let mut raw = Vec::new();
         flate2::read::GzDecoder::new(&compressed[..]).read_to_end(&mut raw)?;