diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f25c85d..cd3e57e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -82,11 +82,9 @@ This repository has been created with the idea of providing a simple skeleton fr
 start a PyTorch Lightning project. Instead of favoring the customizability, we favored the simplicity
 and we intended this template as a base for building more specific templates based on the user needs
 (for example by forking this one). However, there are several other repositories with different 
-features that you can check if interested. We will list two of them here:
+features that you can check if interested. We will list one of them here:
 - [lucmos/nn-template](https://github.com/lucmos/nn-template): a very nice template with support for
     DVC.
-- [hobogalaxy/lightning-hydra-template](https://github.com/hobogalaxy/lightning-hydra-template):
-    another useful and very well documented template repository.
 
 
 ## How to use it
@@ -164,4 +162,4 @@ To fine-tune any of the 4 base sentence encoders you should follow these steps.
     1. `supervised-intent-clustering/conf/model/default_model.yaml`
     2. `supervised-intent-clustering/conf/train/default_train.yaml`
     3. `supervised-intent-clustering/conf/data/default_data.yaml`
-    4. `supervised-intent-clustering/src/train.py`
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+    4. `supervised-intent-clustering/src/train.py`
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2fc1d1e..0190e15 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-torch==2.2.0
+torch==2.8.0
 sentence-transformers
 hydra-core
 tqdm